News Archive - 2006

Here are the most important news items we have published in 2006 on PHP.net.

PHP Conference Brazil

[27-Nov-2006]
The PHP Conference Brasil is the first Brazilian conference related exclusively
to the PHP language in Sao Paulo, on December 1st and 2nd, 2006.

It will be a
great opportunity to establish a sustainable Brazilian PHP community and to
exchange ideas among our professionals.
More info is available at
the Brazilian PHP Conference Web site.

PHP 5.2.0 Released

[02-Nov-2006]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP
5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a
large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements.
Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement
5.2.0, the full list of changes is
available in the ChangeLog PHP 5.

All users of PHP, especially those using earlier PHP 5 releases are advised
to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. This release also obsoletes
the 5.1 branch of PHP.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1 there is an upgrading guide
available here, detailing the changes between those releases
and PHP 5.2.0.

Forum PHP in Paris, France, November 9 & 10th, 2006

[04-Oct-2006]
The French AFUP association is proud to announce
the fifth annual PHP meeting
in Paris, on November 9th and 10th, 2006. Developers and managers will gather
to meet Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski and other prominent community experts
for two days of sessions, packed with enterprise solutions and
advanced techniques (in French).

International PHP Conference 2006

[10-Sep-2006]
Software & Support media is pleased to announce the
International PHP Conference 2006.
It will happen from Nov. 05 to Nov. 08, 2006 at Frankfurt/Main.
This year's sessions include topics on Security, PHP Internals,
PHP & Business and Webservice topics. The Call for Papers has
been closed and the programme is now online.

On Nov. 05 and Nov. 06 there will be 6-hour PowerWorkshops that
deliver hands-on PHP knowledge. A Management Day, dedicated to
Managers who want to get informed about the usage of PHP, contains
several sessions about the usage of PHP in large companies. The
"PHP Code Camp @ Nite" with PHP Core Devs Marcus Börger and Sara
Golemon. They go through from PHP basics to PHP OOP and implementing
your own PHP extension. Delicious pizza and beer will do the rest.
Registration is now open.

PHP 5.1.6 Released

[24-Aug-2006]
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of
PHP 5.1.6. This release contains a fix for
memory_limit restriction on 64 bit systems that was not included in PHP 5.1.5.

Mastering Regular Expressions - now with PHP coverage

[24-Aug-2006]
The third edition of
Mastering Regular Expressions
is finally out and includes a full 48-page chapter on PHP. This is an excellent
resource from Jeffrey Friedl who has been writing about regexps for years.

PHP 4.4.4 and PHP 5.1.5 Released

[17-Aug-2006]
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of
PHP 5.1.5 and 4.4.4. These two releases address a series of
security problems that were discovered since the release of PHP 5.1.4 and
4.4.3. The new releases include the following changes:

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcements
(5.1.5 and
4.4.4), and the full list of changes is
available in the ChangeLogs (PHP 4,
PHP 5).

PHP 4.4.3 Released

[03-Aug-2006]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.3. This release combines small number of
bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. Some of the key changes
of PHP 4.4.3 include:

Disallow certain characters in session names.

Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function.

Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function.

php/db|works 2006 Schedule Now Online

[29-June-2006]
The upcoming premier PHP conference, php|works/db|works,
will take place in Toronto, Canada, September 12-15, 2006.

The conference, as always, will feature excellent speakers from many aspects of PHP development,
including Rasmus Lerdorf, Wez Furlong, Sara Golemon, Sebastian Bergmann, Chris Shiflett and more!
Be sure to check out the
entire lineup,
including special evening social events with top-notch prizes.

Welcome Summer of Code 2006 Students

[26-May-2006]
PHP is very pleased to announce that seven students have been chosen for the
Google 'Summer of Code'. Through this project, Google provides student developers with
a stipend to create new open source programs or to help currently established
projects like PHP. The students are each mentored by members of our community,
who will look after the students and their projects step by step.

The students, their projects and their assigned mentors can be viewed
here.

NYPHPCon 2006 Program Announced

[16-May-2006]
We are pleased to announce the speaker, tutorial and keynote program for
NYPHPCon 2006. The New York PHP
Conference & Expo 2006 is taking place in New York City, at the
historic New Yorker Hotel, June 14-16, 2006. There will be three full
days of sessions, tutorials, exhibits, and networking events.

NYPHPCon 2006 focuses on the The PHP Business Community, with two
featured parallel tracks plus tutorials:
Business Strategy and Technical Solutions. Over 400 are expected to attend,
including business and technical professionals from around the world.

PHP 5.1.4 Released

[04-May-2006]
A critical bug with $_POST array handling as well as the FastCGI sapi have been discovered in PHP 5.1.3. A new PHP release 5.1.4 is now
available to address these issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement
and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.
The tarballs were updated to include the PEAR's phar file, previously missing from the release.

PHP 5.1.3 Released

[01-May-2006]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.3.
This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues.
Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3 include:

Disallow certain characters in session names.

Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function.

Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function.

Summer of Code

[01-May-2006]
Proposals are now being accepted for
Google's
Summer of Code program. If you
qualify
and you are interested in working on a PHP-related project this
summer, please consider applying. We have listed a couple of
ideas, but we would encourage you to
submit a proposal for any part of PHP you are interested in.
If your project is accepted we will match you up with a mentor
and try to provide you with as much support as possible. To
get started, read the
FAQ and
then go to Step 1.

PHP Vikinger

[24-Apr-2006]
The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven
PHP event that will be held in
Skien, Norway
from June 24th to 25th. Like the famous
Foo Camp and
Bar Camp, the people
who attend get to choose and present the sessions at the event.

The event is meant to be affordable: registration is 20 Euros, and
simple food and a place to sleep are provided for both days of the
event. The major expense for most attendees will be the cost of
traveling to Norway. 50
invitations
have been sent to various PEAR and PHP contributors. General
registration for the event opens on May 1st.

php|tek 2006

This year's speaker roster features many well-known PHP and open-source experts,
including Rasmus Lerdorf, IBM's Rod Smith and Zend's Andi Gutmans, speaking on a
variety of topics that highlight PHP's scalability, robustness and future.

PHP Quebec 2006

[26-Feb-2006]
The PHP Quebec team is pleased to
announce the 4th edition of the PHP Quebec Conference.
This year, the conference will be held at the Montreal Plaza Hotel
from March 29th to 31st. It features 2 days of technical learning and an
additional day of workshop. Among the speakers, the well known PHP Experts
such has Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmeivski, Derick Rethans and Ilia
Alshanetsky.

The conference will have three distinct tracks of session: Advanced
Techniques, Professional Development and Databases. With over 31
sessions, including workshops, the PHP Québec Conference is great opportunity
to learn about the latest PHP techniques and professional development
techniques to help you build high quality PHP software. The conference will
also present the various storage solutions available such has IBM DB2,
PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL.

NYPHPCon 2006

[02-Feb-2006]
The New York PHP Conference & Expo
2006 is taking place in New York City, at the historic New Yorker
Hotel, June 14-16, 2006. There will be three full days of sessions,
tutorials, exhibits, and networking events.

NYPHPCon 2006 focuses on the The PHP Business Community, with two
featured parallel tracks: Business Strategy
and Technical Solutions. Over 400 are expected to attend, including
business and technical professionals from around the world.

Third Bulgarian PHP Conference

[19-Jan-2006]
The third Web Technology conference
and Expo in Bulgaria will be held in June 2006 in the city
of Sofia. Within its framework, the Third Bulgarian
PHP Conference will be held. The event will take place on
the 30th of June and the 1st of July at the conference area
of the Kempinski Hotel Zografski.

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the new tendencies
in this direction and to popularize the internet technologies
in the spheres of business, education, and services. The
range of subjects includes technologies like PHP, Perl,
business systems through web, education through the
internet, and others.

UK PHP Conference 2006

[17-Jan-2006]
The first UK PHP Conference
is going to be held on February 10th 2006, organized by the
PHP London user group.
This is a one day event at South Bank University, plus networking events.
The list of speakers: Derick Rethans, Pawel Kozlowski, Harry Fuecks,
Chris Kunz and Matt Zandstra. Not bad for 50 quid.

PHP 4.4.2 Released

[13-Jan-2006]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.2.
This release address a few small security issues, and also corrects some
regressions that occurred in PHP 4.4.1. All PHP 4 users are encouraged to
upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 4.4.2 include:

HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in the header() function.

An XSS problem inside the error reporting functionality has been removed.

Apache 2 regression with sub-request handling on non-Linux systems has been fixed.

PHP 5.1.2 Released

[12-Jan-2006]
The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.2.
This release combines small feature enhancements with a fair number of
bug fixes and addresses three security issues. All PHP 5 users are encouraged to
upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.2 include:

HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in ext/session and in the header() function.